Robot will beam live Moon pictures to Oculus users

I work on that robot. There has never been a serious attempt to use an oculus to control it. Also, Daniel did not build any part of that robot and is trying to take credit for other people's work. The BBC refuses to contact the Robotics Institute at CMU or Astrobotic to verify any details in the story.

Presumably they’ve got a 360º camera module that’ll be proxied through an Earth-local server, rather than actually sending movement controls to a stereo camera on the lander? If nothing else the multi-second latency would be nauseating.

It looks like getting real-time HD video from the Moon may be more in reach than one might think using laser-based communication technology: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/laser-comm.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;topics&#x2F;technology&#x2F;features&#x2F;laser-comm.ht...</a>

We really need voxel cameras. I think the rift will act as a forcing function for their developent.

An occulus is just a dual display device (ie 2 cameras video feeds need to be transmitted)<p>There is no &quot;beam&quot; or magic. Its 2 cameras, 2 video feeds. That&#x27;s great and exciting if as general public, we have access to those video feeds.